John Ford:
A Major Retrospective
He embarked in Hollywood in the silent-era days of World War I, and he worked into the 1960s, the dissolution of the studio system. In between, John Ford (1895-1973) had a singularly awe-inspiring career as a filmmaker, winning many Best Picture Academy Awards and gaining the admiration of critics and other filmmakers around the world. In this critic’s opinion, he is not only the greatest American director of them all but worthy to be listed among the great American artists of the century, with Faulkner and Pollock and Ellington.
